1999 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone

The Europe/Africa Zone was one of three zones of regional competition in the 1999 Fed Cup.

Group I

• Venue: La Manga Club, Murcia, Spain (outdoor clay)
• Date: 19–23 April

The sixteen teams were divided into four pools of four teams. The top two teams of each pool play-off in a two-round knockout stage to decide which nations progress to World Group II Play-offs. The four nations coming last in the pools were relegated down to Group II for 2000.

Pools

	Pool A	RSA	UKR	LAT	DEN
1	South Africa (3–0)		3–0	3–0	3–0
2	Ukraine (2–1)	0–3		2–1	2–1
3	Latvia (1–2)	0–3	1–2		2–1
4	Denmark (0–3)	0–3	1–2	1–2

	Pool B	ROU	SWE	GRE	POR
1	Romania (3–0)		3–0	3–0	3–0
2	Sweden (2–1)	0–3		3–0	3–0
3	Greece (1–2)	0–3	0–3		2–1
4	Portugal (0–3)	0–3	0–3	1–2

	Pool C	GBR	BUL	FIN	YUG
1	Great Britain (3–0)		2–1	3–0	3–0
2	Bulgaria (2–1)	1–2		3–0	3–0
3	Finland (1–2)	0–3	0–3		2–1
4	Yugoslavia (0–3)	0–3	0–3	1–2

	Pool D	SLO	LUX	POL	GEO
1	Slovenia (3–0)		2–1	2–1	2–1
2	Luxembourg (2–1)	1–2		3–0	2–1
3	Poland (1–2)	1–2	0–3		3–0
4	Georgia (0–3)	1–2	1–2	0–3

Knockout Stage

Main article: 1999 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I – Knockout Stage

	Semifinals 22 April					Finals 23 April
		South Africa	2
		Sweden	0
							South Africa	1
							Slovenia	2
		Bulgaria	1
		Slovenia	2
		Romania	2
		Ukraine	0
							Romania	2
							Great Britain	0
		Luxembourg	0
		Great Britain	3

•  Slovenia and  Romania advanced to World Group II Play-offs.^[1][2]
•  Denmark,  Portugal,  Yugoslavia and  Georgia relegated to Group II in 2000.^[3][4][5]

Group II

• Venue: La Manga Club, Murcia, Spain (outdoor clay)
• Date: 26–30 April

The twenty teams were randomly divided into four pools of five teams to compete in round-robin competitions. The teams that finished first in the pools would progress to Group I for 2000.

Pools

Pool A HUN BIH MAD EGY BOT 1  Hungary (4–0) 3–0 3–0 3–0 3–0 2  Bosnia and Herzegovina (3–1) 0–3 3–0 3–0 3–0 3  Madagascar (2–2) 0–3 0–3 2–1 2–1 4  Egypt (1–3) 0–3 0–3 1–2 3–0 5  Botswana (0–4) 0–3 0–3 1–2 0–3

Pool B ISR MDA TUN ARM ISL 1  Israel (4–0) 3–0 2–0 3–0 3–0 2  Moldova (3–1) 0–3 2–1 3–0 3–0 3  Tunisia (2–2) 0–2 1–2 3–0 3–0 4  Armenia (1–3) 0–3 0–3 0–3 3–0 5  Iceland (0–4) 0–3 0–3 0–3 0–3

Pool C MAR EST LIT CYP KEN 1  Morocco (4–0) 2–1 3–0 3–0 3–0 2  Estonia (3–1) 1–2 3–0 3–0 3–0 3  Lithuania (2–2) 0–3 0–3 3–0 3–0 4  Cyprus (1–3) 0–3 0–3 0–3 3–0 5  Kenya (0–4) 0–3 0–3 0–3 0–3

Pool D TUR IRL MLT ALG MKD 1  Turkey (4–0) 2–1 2–1 2–1 2–1 2  Ireland (3–1) 1–2 3–0 3–0 3–0 3  Malta (2–2) 1–2 0–3 3–0 3–0 4  Algeria (1–3) 1–2 0–3 0–3 3–0 5  Macedonia (0–4) 1–2 0–3 0–3 0–3

•  Hungary,  Israel,  Morocco and  Turkey advanced to Group I in 2000.^[6][7][8][9]

See also

• Fed Cup structure

References

External links

• Fed Cup website